Ubaldo Soddu

Ubaldo Soddu (23 July 1883-25 July 1949) was a general of Italy who led the Italian forces in Albania for four months during the Greco-Italian War of 1940, succeeding Sebastiano Visconti Prasca and preceding Ugo Cavallero.

Biography
Ubaldo Soddu was born on 23 July 1883 in Salerno, Italy, and in 1904 he graduated from the Military School of Infantry and Cavalry in Modena as an artillery lieutenant. Soddu served in the 1911 Italo-Turkish War, and he served on the Italian front in World War I before serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel on the front in France. In 1938 he was made General of the Army Corps after years of interwar promotions, and on 13 June 1940 he was given command of an army that took part in the offensive into southern France during World War II before succeeding Sebastiano Visconti Prasca as commander of Italy's army in Albania during the Greco-Italian War. He switched the strategy of the war to defense, but the Greeks broke thorugh at Permeti, and Soddu suffered several defeats at the hands of the Greeks. On 13 January 1941 Ugo Cavallero replaced him as commander of the Italian forces in Albania, and in 1943 he tried to live a private life after the armistice with the Allied Powers. However, Marshal Albert Kesselring arrested him, and he was released a few months later. He died in 1949.